medial

me·di·al

M0189100 (mē′dē-əl)adj.1. Relating to, situated in, or extending toward the middle; median.2. Linguistics Being a sound, syllable, or letter occurring between the initial and final positions in a word or morpheme.3. Mathematics Being or relating to an average or a mean.4. Average; ordinary.n. Linguistics 1. A voiced stop, such as (b), (d), or (g). Also called media².2. A sound, letter, or form of a letter that is neither initial nor final.

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[Late Latin mediālis, from Latin medius, middle; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots.]

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me′di·al·ly adv.

medial

(ˈmiːdɪəl) adj1. of or situated in the middle2. ordinary or average in size3. (Mathematics) maths relating to an average4. (Biology) another word for median¹, median², median³5. (Statistics) another word for median¹, median², median³6. (Zoology) zoology of or relating to a median (Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics a speech sound between being fortis and lenis; media[C16: from Late Latin mediālis, from medius middle] ˈmedially adv

me•di•al

(ˈmi di əl)

adj. 1. in or pertaining to the middle. 2. pertaining to a mean or average; average. 3. (of a sound or letter) occurring within a word, syllable, or other linguistic unit, as the sounds (i) and (t) in city; not initial or final. n. 4. a. a medial sound or letter. b. media ² (def. 2) . [1560–70; < Late Latin mediālis; see medium, -al¹] me′di•al•ly, adv.

medial

1. Toward the middle.2. Toward the midline of the body.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	medial - dividing an animal into right and left halvesmedianmesial - being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body
	2.	medial - relating to or situated in or extending toward the middlemediancentral - in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"

medial

adjective1. At, in, near, or being the center:center, central, median, mid, middle.2. Not extreme:central, intermediate, mean, median, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, midway.

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